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I am not sure if this is the right forum to post this in, buuuuut since it's Community Commons I suppose a post about books wouldn't be too off-topic, right?
Anyway. I am an English teacher in training and I have to format a unit plan to cover an entire year of high school, and it must abide by a single theme that you can branch into subtopics and such. I've made my theme "justice," and I am branching off into topics such as revenge, guilt, fair vs. unfair, etc. The difficult I'm having is coming up with enough texts to use with this theme. So far I plan to use The Count of Monte Cristo, Othello, and The Kite Runner. However, I'll need a few more throughout the unit, and I was wondering if anyone knew of any short stories that would fit this theme.
I'm having tremendous difficulty with it, so I think it is likely that I will change this topic completely, but I figured I'd post and see if anyone could help me before I threw the towel in.
Thanks.
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I'd like to suggest Vladimir Nabokov's
Invitiation to a Beheading. I'm sure you're familiar with Lolita. Same author.
May be a bit advanced for high school, but it details a man's imprisonment for "Gnostical Turpitude". A man is imprisoned, but it's never stated what he specifically did. I eventually came to the conclusion that he was jailed for simply wanting to be an ordinary man with an ordinary life. Wife, family, etc. Society as a whole is made up of perceptions, but is completely hollow. His wife has multiple affairs and it's not seen as something negative. His jailers expect him to be happy about being jailed and to go along with his execution because it's written procedure. Very definition of "poshlust".
Very Kafka.
A great book. Not very long, either. Can be finished in a few days.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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